Hi, recently I have spent some time getting Crunch ready for release. I've never created an Apache release before and I was surprised how much work it was. I'm not afraid of process and scattered documentation (I work for a big company ;-)) but I think this is more difficult than it has to be.
Many new Incubator projects use Java and Maven, so I think they would benefit from a Maven archetype that sets things up for them. Most projects enter the Incubator with a pre-existent code base but I found it much easier to start from scratch and re-integrate than to endlessly tweak an existing POM. I have created such an archetype in case you're interested; here's how it works: mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://dev.mafr.de/repos/maven2/archetype-catalog.xml At the prompt, pick the Incubator archetype and enter project coordinates: Define value for property 'groupId': : org.apache.foobar Define value for property 'artifactId': : foobar Define value for property 'version': 1.0-SNAPSHOT: : Define value for property 'package': org.apache.foobar: : Define value for property 'name': : Apache Foobar If the project differs from what I think are current best practices you'll have to tweak the POM a bit. Most things should be fine though. Creating a release works via the "apache-release" build profile: mvn install -Papache-release If you think this is useful I'm willing to donate the archetype. Regards, Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
